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Remember Hind
Her short life should never be forgotten
6 year old Hind Rajab found herself in a car with adults killed by the IDF and an Israeli tank ensuring she couldn’t be rescued. She made a phone call pleading for help and 2 Red Crescent volunteers went the next day. For 12 days no one knew of the fate of her or the volunteers. Eventually, all were found to have been killed.
We will never know what hell this 6 year old girl went through in her last hours or days but her death will be a stain that Israel will never wash out.
Hind is a caravan
Bringing spices and silks from the East
Hind is a country
Of over a billion people
A people who brought spices to us
Hind is from Gaza
From where we got gauze
To adorn our necks
And heal our wounds
Ancient Gaza
But Hind’s wounds will not heal
Her tears cannot sooth
Her memory stings
Her cries break our sleep
May her killers never sleep
In English
A hind is a female red dear
A creature of elegance and grace
Fleet of foot
But no match for a gun
May she rise on hinds feet
And speak to our cruel world
Do not forget her name
May it fly on the wind
Remember Hind
